harlot

詳細解釋：

har.lot

n.（名詞）
A prostitute.
妓女

來源：
Middle English [vagabond, rogue, lecher, harlot]
中古英文 [流浪乞丐，流氓，好色之徒，妓女]
from Old French arlot, herlot [vagabond]
源自 古法文 arlot, herlot [流浪的]

【引伸】
har.lotry
<注釋>Harlot is first recorded in English in a work written around the beginning of the 3th century, meaning .a man of no fixed occupation, vagabond, beggar,. also the first main sense of the word herlot, which we borrowed from Old French. The recorded history of a word is sometimes all we need to scotch conjectures as to its ultimate origins. William Lambarde, in a 570-57' work, suggested that the word harlot came from the name of Arletta, or .Harlothe,. William the Conqueror`s mother. As we have seen, Lambarde was unnecessarily besmirching her, for the history of harlot makes clear that .prostitute. was not its first sense. In fact, the word came to mean .male lecher. before it meant .prostitute,. but by the time Lambarde wrote, .prostitute. must have been thought to have been the main sense of the word, hence his etymology.
Harlot 在英文中首次出現於某部創作於約3世紀初的作品中，意指.沒有固定職業的人，流浪者，乞丐，.這也是 herlot 一詞由古法文轉借而來的第一個主要意思。單詞的歷史記載通常可供我們推測該詞的最初淵源，威廉·蘭巴德在他於570年到57'年間創作的作品中指出： harlot 一詞來自於英王威廉一世的母親阿莉塔或.哈洛特.的名字，我們知道，蘭巴德並無需玷污英王母親的名譽，因為 harlot 一詞的歷史很明白地表明.妓女.之意並非該詞的第一個意思，實際上，該詞在意為.妓女.之前所具備的意思是.好色的男人.，但在蘭巴德創作之時，.妓女.一定已經被認為是該詞的主要意思，這便是它的詞源